Animals & Wildlife

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We have had snow cover now ever since Tuesday morning (5 days ago) here in the north west of England.  With the freezing temperatures remaining over the last week the snow has now turned to compacted ice and there seems no sign of it thawing in the near future. The rabbits don’t seem to bothered by the snow.  We have… Read more

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Well it was about 16 months ago now that Daphne first hatched the first batch of chicks in the aviary, and over the last 4 weeks we have had batch number 4.  What is special about this batch is that aswell as Daphne giving birth Christina and Hyacinth have also given birth. If fact Christina is something of a triumph. … Read more

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Well it has been about two months since the birth of Bruce and Eddie the budgies and we now have two more baby budgies that are almost fully grown.  In fact they should be coming out of their box any time soon.  Yesterday we managed to get them out and take some photographs of them before they learnt how to fly off. Ewan… Read more

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A short while ago now we constructed a ‘Pets Corner’ in the garden, which was somewhere for the rabbits and the birds to enjoy life.  We finished this and then discovered that George and Jeremy could escape by literally climbing over there pen fence.  We then constrcuted a futher ‘overhang’ to prevent this which worked. … Read more

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Its funny isn’t it how for so long over the last few weeks I have had very little to blog about, and then all of a sudden there is so much to say that you need lots of posts to do it.  For this reason this post is a mix of this and that, that has been happening over the last couple of days. About a week ago now Daphne (our… Read more

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Working away on Saturday on a clients website I decided to open the window in the office and take a look at the newly (almost) completed garden and admire the view for a little break.  To my amazement I found two rabbits running around eating all the foliage in the garden. Now for anyone that has been round to our house over… Read more

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It has now been 4 long weeks since the budgies were born and this week as seen both of them venture out of their box for the first time.  Bruce (who may yet still be a girl!) is a lot more adventurous than Eddie as he has been out most of the time. Eddie still seems a little unsteady on his feet although he is the most… Read more